The European Commission has recently issued a working document containing an analysis of the problems related to the implementaion of the 100% scanning rule for containerized traffic destined to the USA, adopted on July 2007 by the US Congress. According to such a report, the implementation of the above measure of security, laid down in the Section 905 of the "Improving America’s Security Act", requires considerable investments on the part of ports where fluxes of goods destined to the USA start, and causes an increase of the trasport costs for companies, that in turn will impact on the final price of goods, and therefore on the consumers. Moreover, in the Commission's opinion, such measure not necessarily would lead to an increase of the global security.
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